sweeping the world

Chapter 332
Looking at the main battlefield in Luoyin, the Qiang troops around the Han army camp were mobilized extremely frequently. The Qiang troops in the offensive position were at least around [-], and there were more Qiang troops on standby on the periphery.

If it weren't for the terrain restrictions, Yao Yizhong would actually have wished to send all the troops except the reserve team into the attack.He has been very manic recently. The reason is of course that his teammates Sun Fudu and Liu Kai failed to attack and turned into defensive. Furthermore, he was tortured to the point of going crazy by Liu Yan's inexhaustible cavalry.

It is really endless!No matter how many Qiang soldiers fought against the five thousand cavalry of the Han army the day before, the next day the cavalry of the Han army was still around five thousand. To Yao Yizhong, it was not as simple as being weird. A sense of confusion bordering on madness.

The Han cavalry who fought out of camp lost nearly [-] people, and the Qiang cavalry who fought against them lost nearly [-] people.That was the advantage brought by Yao Yizhong's repeated compression of the activity space of the Han cavalry. If he hadn't done that, he would have had to fight to a certain proportion.

Yao Yizhong thought again and again that the cavalry in Liu Yan's hands would not be consumed much. What the hell is that the number of cavalry dispatched by the Han army has not changed at all.Yao Yizhong would try to launch a general attack because he found that the number of cavalry sent out by Liu Yan to fight in the latest camp had reached [-]. He became furious with the mentality of hell, and then there were those who blocked the reinforcements of the Han army. One of the two roads already has insufficient support.

What is difficult to support is the Qiang army that blocked the cavalry reinforcements.There are already more than [-] infantrymen of the Han army who have successfully set foot on the north bank of Jishui on this road. There are also about [-] armored cavalry that appeared on the battlefield. They wiped out more than [-] Qiangs who fought with them for the first time. The troops were so frightened that Hu Yansheng, who led the battle, retreated for [-] li and urgently reported to Yao Yizhong.

That is the armored heavy cavalry, currently recognized as the strongest army on land, Hu Yansheng was really scared a little bit, especially the Huben army wiped out over ten thousand troops as soon as they came out.

Now that the armor and riding equipment of the Han army appeared, how could Yao Yizhong not know that if he did not attempt a general attack, the encirclement would soon be broken through.He deeply believes that once there is a gap in the siege, Liu Yan will definitely choose to break out, after all, as long as he is an individual, he will not want to be in the siege.

Yao Yizhong was guessing Liu Yan with a normal mentality, but it must be said that Yao Yizhong was wrong in thinking so.

Because some types of supplies can be obtained directly from the town center, Liu Yan’s food and fodder does not depend on the logistics line, and as long as there are enough buildings such as the blacksmith’s shop, there will be no shortage of armored equipment and troops. Liu Yan doesn’t care at all. Whether he is besieged or not, the only thing that will make Liu Yan feel a sense of crisis is that he can't keep it.As long as Liu Yan can defend, the war of attrition and being besieged are not disadvantages at all.

A sense of urgency made Yao Yizhong anxious. He thought that he could not delay any longer, and the tentative general attack broke out today.

"Your Majesty, it's time to dispatch the cavalry." Ji Chang noticed Yao Yizhong's obvious intention, and said with a little seriousness: "Under this situation, we must seize the initiative."

That's completely nonsense, one can imagine facing the general attack launched by Yao Yizhong, Ji Chang felt a sense of urgency in his heart.

"Our surrounding reinforcements are probably going to break through the siege line." Sang Yu didn't use a question, he said seriously: "Is it time to block the river?"

Liu Yan agrees with what Ji Chang and Sang Yu said.

Now that there are reinforcements to break through the blocking line arranged by Yao Yizhong, Yao Yizhong's elite troops have also appeared. Before, it was suspected that Yao Yizhong did not mobilize all his troops to the south bank of the Yellow River, but now there is no such doubt.Then it means that Liu Yan's goal has been basically achieved, and it is really time to enter the decisive stage.

If Yao Yizhong had a choice, he would choose to enter the general offensive in the middle of autumn.It's the middle of summer now, the livestock haven't fattened up, and the weather is really too hot. It's really not a good time to start a war.

Many times there is simply no choice, just like Yao Yizhong had to lead his army to Qingzhou instead of sending his army to the northwest to fight Zhang's Liang Kingdom.

"Master, the Han army dispatched cavalry, divided into two groups, one to attack the east and the other to attack the south."

"Strength distribution?"

"Hui Junzhu: There should be [-] Han cavalry in the east, and about [-] Han cavalry in the south."

After hearing the report, Yao Yizhong was actually rather speechless. If he wanted to say something, he was cursing in his heart that the number of cavalry in the Han army had increased again.

One thing Yao Yizhong was absolutely certain of was that there really were no reinforcements to break through the encirclement and enter Liu Yan's camp.In this way, he only got one explanation. The number of Han troops at the beginning was definitely not [-], and the cavalry he found were not the real number Liu Yan had.

"Attack! We must attack the Han army camp today!"

"Yes!"

Yao Yizhong's elite troops are armed infantry, but they are not heavy infantry. As long as they wear iron armor in any age, they can be called soldiers, but not all soldiers are heavy infantry. It depends on what they wear. The style of infantry armor, and how many layers of armor are worn.

The Qiang people can be called elite troops, there should be about [-] troops, and the source of troops is to choose brave and skilled warriors from millions of Qiang people.The number of assault cavalry is [-], the number of armed infantry is more than [-], and the remaining [-] weapons are relatively sophisticated but only wear leather armor.

Of course, [-] is just the amount Yao Yizhong brought, and there must be more scattered around, but the armor and equipment will not be so sophisticated.

The Central Plains was arbitrarily ravaged by the Hu people, which not only seriously damaged agricultural production, but also reduced the productivity of craftsmen.More importantly, the Hu people are just reckless about mining and so on. Jin people rely on Jin people for prospecting. If you want to make weapons and armor, you must have craftsmen and enough resources.

The Shijie Zhao Kingdom is said to be a country rather than a multi-tribal alliance. It is more like a common alliance of the Jie, Qiang and Di people. Although they also have a national framework, the chaotic politics coupled with the Jie people's mentality of governing the Central Plains, the national power It is in a downward rather than upward trend.

Yao Yizhong can still gather more than 1 troops wearing metal, and Fu Hong of the Di clan can gather four to five thousand troops, which is considered to be the best.This is also the difference between the historical background of the ethnic group and the control of the territory, just like the fact that the Jie clan, as the overlord of the Central Plains, can use more resources.

The main attack direction of the Qiang people was placed in the north.After half a month of their operation here, the landform is different from that before the war. Too many man-made fortifications seem to be in disarray, but it must be carefully distinguished that they have left a cavalry attack channel.

Liu Yan sent cavalry to deal with the east and south sides, and could only mobilize infantry to attack the north side.

The attacking Qiang troops approached to a distance of about a hundred paces. The sound of drums was heard in the camp on the north side of the Han army, and several gates were opened wide. Shield soldiers as the second batch, followed by spearmen and other arms.

The attacking Qiang troops have reached a distance of about a hundred steps from the Han army, which means that the Qiang archers are also within their shooting range. The battlefield is currently a scene of arrows flying back and forth like locusts, all the time. Someone fell with an arrow.The most terrifying thing is the Han army's chariot crossbows, bed crossbows and catapults. Even if they form a shield array, they can't resist the thick crossbow arrows, let alone block the stone bullets.

As soon as the sword and shield soldiers came out of the camp, they held their round shields and charged directly at the enemy. The target of the charge was the trench. When they moved forward, they faced the arrows shot by the enemy. Every moment, someone fell in the middle of the charge. .

The tower shield soldiers marched out of the camp for a certain distance and began to form a shield formation. First, a small number of people formed a small shield formation, and then used the small shield formations to form a large shield formation. During the process, some people kept falling down from arrows.

The Han army went out to fight, but the Qiang army actually had more joy than anything else.Before the Han army came out of the camp, the number of Qiang troops attacking the north would not be less than [-], and before that they would never kill or kill more than [-] Han soldiers.

Originally, Ji Chang suggested that the catapult vehicle should be replaced by a catapult fuel tank, but Liu Yan did not adopt it.

Yes, the fire oil tank had been prepared long ago, but it was never launched at all.They were prepared by Liu Yan to be used at the most critical moment. There had been no crisis situations in the previous battles, and there were no targets worthy of fire oil tanks.

"Wait for the fleet to block the Yellow River and cut off the retreat of Yao Yizhong's troops." Liu Yan showed a cruel expression on his face, and said with a smirk: "They may become the key weapon to force the enemy to surrender."

Liu Yan's heart is still very big. What he wants is not only defeating Yao Yizhong, but also not simply annihilating them. If he can force hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers to surrender and make prisoners of war become labor force, wouldn't that be better than killing them all?

Of course, Liu Yan's heart is big enough, but whether the situation can develop as planned is still uncertain.

"The progress of the war has been considered very fast." Liu Yan said with emotion: "On the one hand, Yao Yizhong wants to defeat us quickly so that he can send troops to the northwest region to deal with Zhang's Liangguo; on the other hand, Shi Hu keeps urging us .”

That's right, the combined armies dispatched by the two sides amounted to hundreds of thousands. It is normal for armies of this size to fight for several years. It only took half a month for them to enter the decisive battle stage from contact, which is considered extremely hasty.

"Zhang Jun took advantage." Sang Yu said with a smile: "Yao Yizhong came to Qingzhou, not to march to the northwest. Should we ask for some benefits from Liangguo?"

Sang Yu could still laugh because he saw that his tower shield soldiers had built a shield wall with a length of about 600 meters. The soldiers kept firing crossbow arrows.

Under the continuous cover of the Han army's continuous crossbowmen, the archers on the Qiang side suffered heavy casualties. The resulting situation is that the long-range troops on the Han army's side are still demonstrating fiercely like rain of arrows, while the long-range troops on the Qiang side have become Coward.

……Dividing line……

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